11-04-17 Easter Trophy Meeting

A very competitive evenings racing with trophies to be won in the finals.

Qualifying
Louis Parker won all three rounds of qualifying to take pole in the A Final, Mark Deacon was in second place and also set the fastest qualifying lap. Darren Ford was in third place followed by Gavin Maciver, Steve Donald and Bob Harley completing the line up for the A Final.
In the club Mardave class Paul Galbraith was the top driver, Mike Simpson second and Wes Wray in third place making an excellent start in his quest to win his first trophy.

Finals
In the Mardave final Paul Galbraith made a slow start and lost his pole position on the grid advantage to Mike Simpson who went into the lead on lap 1 with Wes Wray in third place. Mike and Paul pulled away from the rest of the field an a very close race followed with Mike fighting to hold onto his lead. Paul reduced the gap to less than half a second by lap 21 but could not catch up and overtake the leader. Things were looking good for Wes half way through the race until disaster struck when his transmitter lost power forcing a long pit stop. Meanwhile Alex Forster moved up into third place and retained this to the finish being a comfortable two laps clear of Roy Matthews in fourth place. A win for Mike and second place for Paul in one of the best Mardave races for some time.

Visiting driver Jason Leavis was on pole for the GT12 C final with Paul Carter car 2 and McKenzie Wallace car 3.
McKenzie made a great start and took the lead on lap 1 with Jack Walsh car 4 in second place. Paul moved up into second place on lap 2 with McKenzie starting to pull away from everyone and extend his lead. There was a fine race between Jack, Courtney and Paul for second, third and fourth places. It went right to the wire with Paul taking second, Courtney third and Jack fourth just a few seconds between them. McKenzie went on to win by two laps – a great performance in his first trophy meeting – well done.

The line up for the B Final had the makings of a great race and we were not to be disappointed! Daniel Lacey starting from pole was leading after lap 1 and went on to win the race by one lap with some fast and accurate driving. Nick Wallace starting from position 5 on the grid made a great start and quickly moved up into second place but was overtaken by Matt Popejoy a few laps later. Stephen Deacon was just a couple of seconds down on these two drivers as they all tried to keep pace with Daniel and eventually finished a few seconds apart, Matt second, Nick third and Stephen fourth.

In the A Final Louis Parker was the leader after the first lap with Mark Deacon second and Gavin Maciver moving up into third spot with Darren Ford fourth. Gavin overtook Mark on lap 9 only for Mark to regain second place on lap 24. Louis drove an almost flawless race, Mark set the fastest lap time but could not catch Louis. Then on lap 33 Mark’s speed controller cut out for a few seconds and Gavin moved up into second place until on the last lap Mark got past him again to take second by 0.28 seconds – what a finish to end the evenings racing!

Afterwards the trophies were presented by Chelle Snowden.